Introduction
BigPicture PPM for monday.com will revolutionize the way your data is organized. In BigPicture, we use boxes that are containers for your monday boards, groups, and items across your workspaces.
Your monday boards will be used to populate the scope of the box. No matter the size of the project or the complexity of your portfolio, one box can hold any amount of your monday boards.
Visualize timelines and roadmaps effortlessly
Create and organize tasks directly on the Gantt chart
The Gantt chart in BigPicture provides a detailed visualization of the project’s scope on the timeline. You are free to create monday items without leaving the chart. Moreover, monday items can be conveniently organized and adjusted.
Customize the timeline view to track progress and deadlines with ease
With the timeline options, you can easily monitor progress and deadlines. The features such as milestones and markers provide a clear visual representation of project progress. The timeline can be modified to display various time intervals depending on your needs.
Make “what-if” scenarios to test changes to the Gantt chart
If you wish to take your planning activities to the next level, use the what-if scenario option and try out different variants of your plan, compare the results, or save your scenario as reference points. The scenarios don’t make any changes in your monday items until you decide to replace the live view with it.
Organize your tasks in a way you need
Display different fields as columns, change the aggregation, and display options
You no longer need to go to a given issue separately to check its details. With BigPicture, you get a holistic view of your project at once. You can freely customize the task tree in the Gantt module in terms of the data you want to see. Column views allow you to add various fields and configure their display and aggregation settings in just a few clicks. Once your column view is customized, you can save it for future use.
Add basic tasks as placeholders for temporary work
Another key feature for organizing tasks is the possibility to create basic tasks that serve great as placeholders or temporary tasks. Although basic tasks are not synchronized with monday, they can represent any work item and let you build a structure however you want it.
Map dependencies and monitor progress
Keep your tasks on track with auto-scheduling
Dependencies specify the relationship between items, milestones, and other elements in a logical sequence. They help you visualize the order in which you need to proceed with the issues and estimate the timeframe. You can draw dependencies between parent items and sub-items in the same monday board, as well as items from different monday boards.
Control critical paths and set milestones
Generate the critical path for your project
Don’t spend time calculating the critical path on your own. Let BigPicture take care of it for you! As long as you have your scope and strong dependencies, BigPicture will automatically draw the critical path. You can also create alternative critical paths with what-if scenarios.
Use drag & drop and inline editing
Arrange everything with drag & drop
The drag & drop feature allows you to perform various actions in BigPicture such as moving boxes up and down in the hierarchy, creating dependencies, moving the timeline, and much more!
Update fields with inline editing
Instead of jumping between several edit pages, use theinline editing option to make changes to tasks. Discover how easy it is to inline edit fields when working with column views or grouping tasks.
Monitor capacity and distribute the workload
Manage and allocate resources directly in the Gantt module
The Gantt module in BigPicture comes with a dedicated space to manage and allocate resources. The Resources panel lets you preview how much work has been assigned. You can keep an eye on a list of resources along with the capacity and workload status of the respective person.
Manage resources across the whole organization with the Resources module
The Resources module in BigPicture is fully dedicated to resources. It is not only for checking and managing all your resources’ absences, holidays, and workload but also for assigning and re-assigning tasks to your resources. You can easily prevent overallocated resources by rescheduling a task or reassigning it to another person. If you want BigPicture to suggest the particular resource for allocation based on their skill set and remaining capacity, use the Find perfect match option.
With the Skills panel, which is part of the Resources module, you will know how much skill-related effort you need for all the tasks you have planned for a particular period.
